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公开(公告)号:US10602623B1
公开(公告)日:2020-03-24
申请号:US15840750
申请日:2017-12-13
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Scott A. Myers
Abstract: An electronic device may have a flexible display. The electronic device may have housing portions that are rotatably coupled to each other so that the flexible display may fold along one or more bend axes. A device may have rollers that store a flexible display and that help deploy the display from within a housing when additional display area is desired. A touch screen in a housing may be overlapped by a flexible display that has been scrolled outwardly from the housing. Wireless transmitter and receiver circuitry may be used to convey image data to display driver circuitry. The display driver circuitry may display images on a pixel array in a flexible display based on the image data. Magnets may be used to outwardly bias edge-mounted bistable support structures to help prevent a rolled flexible display from wrinkling.
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公开(公告)号:US20200089282A1
公开(公告)日:2020-03-19
申请号:US16691293
申请日:2019-11-21
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: John Raff , Scott A. Myers , Christopher Stringer
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display having a flexible substrate with fastened bent edges. The flexible substrate may have an active region that includes an array of light-emitting elements such as organic light-emitting diodes. The flexible substrate may also have inactive regions that lie outside of the active region. The bent edges may include portions of the inactive regions and portions of the active region. The bent edges may be wrapped to conform to the shape of an internal support structure. The bent edges may be fastened to the support structure with fastening members that attach a housing member or an internal clamp to the support structure. The bent edges may be secured between the housing member or the internal clamp and the support structure. The fastening members may be engaged in openings in the support structure and may pass through or alongside the bent edges.
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公开(公告)号:US10547717B2
公开(公告)日:2020-01-28
申请号:US16241914
申请日:2019-01-07
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Matthew D. Hill , Derek C. Krass , Benjamin Shane Bustle , Lucy Elizabeth Browning , Michael Benjamin Wittenberg , James B. Smith , Ashutosh Y. Shukla , Scott A. Myers
Abstract: An enclosure and a method for forming an enclosure are disclosed. The enclosure may be formed from metal, such as aluminum, and further include a non-metal portion allowing for transmission and receipt of electromagnetic waves. The non-metal portion may be interlocked to the enclosure and in particular, to a region within the enclosure including a first material having a relatively high strength and stiffness compared to the non-metal portion. Interlocking means may include forming dovetail cuts into the enclosure to receive the non-metal portion, a hole or cavity drilled into the enclosure which includes internal threads, and a rod inserted into the first material to provide a tension to the non-metal portion. Methods of assembling internal components using anodization are also disclosed.
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公开(公告)号:US10546901B2
公开(公告)日:2020-01-28
申请号:US16203410
申请日:2018-11-28
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Benjamin M. Rappoport , Jeremy C. Franklin , Fletcher R. Rothkopf , Scott A. Myers , Richard P. Howarth , Julian Hoenig , Christopher J. Stringer , John P. Ternus , Stephen Brian Lynch
IPC: G02F1/1345 , H01L27/32 , G06F1/16 , G06F3/01 , G02B27/01 , G06F3/042 , G06F3/044 , G09G3/3208 , H01L51/00 , H04R1/02 , G02B5/20
Abstract: An electronic device may have a display. The display may have an active region in which display pixels are used to display images. The display may have one or more openings and may be mounted in a housing associated with the electronic device. An electronic component may be mounted in alignment with the openings in the display. The electronic component may include a camera, a light sensor, a light-based proximity sensor, status indicator lights, a light-based touch sensor array, a secondary display that has display pixels that may be viewed through the openings, antenna structures, a speaker, a microphone, or other acoustic, electromagnetic, or light-based component. One or more openings in the display may form a window through which a user of the device may view an external object. Display pixels in the window region may be used in forming a heads-up display.
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公开(公告)号:US10521034B2
公开(公告)日:2019-12-31
申请号:US16421892
申请日:2019-05-24
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Scott A. Myers , Stephen Brian Lynch , Anthony S. Montevirgen
IPC: G06F3/041 , G06F3/0488 , G06F1/16 , G06F3/0481 , G06F3/044 , H04M1/02 , H04M1/23
Abstract: Electronic devices may be provided that contain flexible displays that are bent to form displays on multiple surfaces of the devices. Bent flexible displays may be bent to form front side displays and edge displays. Edge displays may be separated from front side displays or from other edge displays using patterned housing members, printed or painted masks, or by selectively activating and inactivating display pixels associated with the flexible display. Edge displays may alternately function as virtual buttons, virtual switches, or informational displays that are supplemental to front side displays. Virtual buttons may include transparent button members, lenses, haptic feedback components, audio feedback components, or other components for providing feedback to a user when virtual buttons are activated.
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公开(公告)号:US20190217513A1
公开(公告)日:2019-07-18
申请号:US16360929
申请日:2019-03-21
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Benjamin Shane Bustle , Tyler B. Cater , Derek C. Krass , Scott A. Myers
IPC: B29C45/14
CPC classification number: B29C45/14786 , B29C45/14311 , B29K2101/12 , B29L2031/3437 , B29L2031/3456 , B29L2031/3481 , H04M1/0202
Abstract: Compound structures and methods for forming the same are described. The compound structures can be used to form an enclosure. The enclosure may be formed from metal, such as aluminum, and further include one or more non-metal regions that allow for transmission and receipt of electromagnetic waves, such as radio frequency waves. The non-metal region can include a first section, a second section, and an optional cosmetic section. The first section can be firmly molded onto a metal section of the enclosure by small pores formed within the metal section. The second section can engage with interlock features of the first section. The optional cosmetic section can cover the first section and the second section such that the first section and the second section are not visible from an exterior of the enclosure.
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公开(公告)号:US20190212603A1
公开(公告)日:2019-07-11
申请号:US16355569
申请日:2019-03-15
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Paul S. Drzaic , Jeremy C. Franklin , Stephen Brian Lynch , Scott A. Myers , Benjamin M. Rappoport , Fletcher R. Rothkopf , John P. Ternus
IPC: G02F1/1345
CPC classification number: G02F1/13452 , G02F2201/42
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display having a thin-film transistor layer. One or more holes in the thin-film transistor layer may be used to form pathways from display circuitry to other circuitry underneath the display. One or more conductive bridges may pass through holes in the thin-film transistor layer and may have one end that couples to the display circuitry and a second end that couples to a printed circuit underneath the display. These conductive bridges may be formed from wire bonding. Wire bond connections may be encapsulated with potting material to improve the reliability of the wire bond and increase the resiliency of the display. Display signal lines may be routed through holes in a thin-film transistor layer to run along a backside of the display thereby reducing the need for space in the border region for display circuitry.
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公开(公告)号:US10345860B2
公开(公告)日:2019-07-09
申请号:US15954564
申请日:2018-04-16
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Scott A. Myers
IPC: G06F1/16 , G06F3/01 , G06F3/041 , G06F3/0481 , G06F3/0487 , G06F3/14 , H05K7/06 , H05K13/00 , H04M1/02
Abstract: A consumer electronic product includes at least a transparent housing and a flexible display assembly enclosed within the transparent housing. In the described embodiment, the flexible display assembly is configured to present visual content at any portion of the transparent housing.
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公开(公告)号:USD852197S1
公开(公告)日:2019-06-25
申请号:US29658265
申请日:2018-07-30
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Designer: Jody Akana , Bartley K. Andre , Shota Aoyagi , Anthony Michael Ashcroft , Jeremy Bataillou , Daniel J. Coster , Daniele De Iuliis , M. Evans Hankey , Matthew David Hill , Julian Hoenig , Richard P. Howarth , Jonathan P. Ive , Duncan Robert Kerr , Scott A. Myers , David A. Pakula , Matthew Dean Rohrbach , Peter Russell-Clarke , Benjamin Andrew Shaffer , Mikael Silvanto , Christopher J. Stringer , Eugene Antony Whang , Michael Benjamin Wittenberg , Rico Zörkendörfer
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公开(公告)号:US10334745B2
公开(公告)日:2019-06-25
申请号:US15821301
申请日:2017-11-22
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Scott A. Myers , Mattia Pascolini , Richard Hung Minh Dinh , Trent Weber , Robert Schlub , Josh Nickel , Robert Hill , Nanbo Jin , Tang Yew Tan
Abstract: An electronic device may include a ring-shaped housing member defining an interior volume. The ring-shaped housing member may be configured to receive electronic device components. The ring-shaped housing member may include a first element comprising an angled region, and a second element comprising an angled region. A first intermediate element may be placed between the first and second elements, where the intermediate element is secured to internal surfaces of each of the first and second elements such that the first and second elements do not overlap. The first intermediate element may fasten the first and second elements to one another, and electrically isolate the first and second elements from one another.
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